Restoring responsibility : ethics in government, business, and healthcare

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Author:

Thompson, Dennis Frank, 1940-

ISBN:

9780521838306

9780521547222

Personal Author:

Thompson, Dennis Frank, 1940-

Publication Information:

Cambridge [etc.] : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Physical Description:

VIII, 349 str. ; 24 cm.

General Note:

"Collection of previously published articles"

Contents:

Part I. Demands of Institutional Politics: 1. The problem of many hands -- 2. The responsibility of advisers -- 3. Bureaucracy and democracy -- 4. Judicial responsibility -- 5. Representatives in the welfare state -- Part II. Varieties of Institutional Failure: 6. Democratic secrecy -- 7. Mediated corruption -- 8. Election time -- 9. Hypocrisy and democracy -- 10. Private life and public office -- Part III. Extensions of Institutional Responsibility: 11. Restoring distrust -- 12. The institutional turn in professional ethics -- 13. Hospital ethics -- 14. Conflicts of interest in medicine -- 15. The privatization of business ethics -- 16. Democratic theory and global society.

Subject Term:

Družbena odgovornost.

Moralna odgovornost.

Moral responsibility.

Politična filozofija.

Political philosophy.

Medicinska etika.

Electronic Access:

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/cam051/2004040654.html
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam041/2004040654.html
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam041/2004040654.html

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Summary

In this important collection of essays Dennis Thompson argues for a more robust conception of responsibility in public life than prevails in contemporary democracies. He suggests that we should stop thinking so much about public ethics in terms of individual vices (such as selfishness or sexual misconduct) and start thinking about it more in terms of institutional vices (such as abuse of power and lack of accountability). Combining theory and practice with many concrete examples and proposals for reform, these essays could be used in courses in applied ethics or political theory and will be read by professionals and graduate students in schools of political science, public policy, law, public health, journalism and business.